The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-08
hand tha. gave them and reclaimed them !;

uhnu tnat gave them and reclaimed them
but Leonard was spared, and having Leon
ard she had all. And there was, more
over, o certain ecstacy In her sorrow, will
the thought OF what II meant 10 have
children In heaven. ut Is a sacrament
she said to Leonard; Two had them, God
has them; God and we, and no other
enter into It. II Is positive and actua
breaking OF sacramental bread. And oh,
my darling!" sllo would cry, throwing hei
arms about him, ''since have you--"
But as time went Oh, and no othe,
children came. Bhe Baw what q grief |,
was TO Leonard, what m increasing grief !;
how he loved othtr peoples children, and
longed for bis own. And she was conlen!
with only him. Yet for any aud every
drawback, Whist a perfect homo theirs had
been; what generous hospitality had
reigned within its open doors; how the
poor knew its gates rs the birds do the
branching trees; what cheerfulness and
sweetness, and gay, bright pocal life and
love oil man dxelt therel Once In while,
II Is true, Helena had smoulderipg mood
that blazad out when ohio suspected some
woman q making sickness q pretonse for
the comfort Of the doctors presence, and
wrathiully forbade him ever to bring that
woman into the houss-endiug always BY
carrying her, herself, all msnnors Of
dalntles by day, and sitting up with her at
night. Yes, on the whole, an almost per-
iect homeland no two days alike In It,
Leonard came and sat beside hcr as the
purple began to wipe out the gold 1t tho
midst Of the gorge bslow, md pale star
tremhled out upon tho upper air. "Ah,
what beautiful world 1t ii!" sho sighed.
"Because you are in It," he answered
her, lightly.
"Do you really thiak 20 STILL" no said,
WHOM we have been married eight yearr,
and after all my tempers?" 7t'5 .z-''
u! shall think 80 forever? You arc to
me lovelier than the day l married you-
closer part Of the fibre OF my Utmost be.
ing" 20 ~
~ think I believe you" she said, half
ahyly. II think il I wers 10 die, you are
the one man In the world who would not
marry again."
"Msry again" he cried, drawing her to.
ward him fervently; when so detest
second marriages., that 1 hold them al.
loaab!e only as evidence that the first was
no marriage at all? And /, who have
been your husband, profaoe your memory
by putting another woman in your place
Thank heaven, there arc some tainys that
are impossiblel" and she returned his
embrace as fervently.
"And should not live to marry again.
said. III grief did not kill me, there are
quieting potiona TINT would. What should
/ have to live for? How could survive
tho loss OF half myself from tho day oil
your birth, and for eight years the very
breath Of my being! Not oven death
could divorce two lives knit like aursp
She had become co psld 10 Such aseeyer.
atoms, that ! doubt II she would not have
iels little wronged and de!rGuded had he
Jailed to maks 1t as emphatic. As 1t was,
Tor some subtle reason, 1t only filed her
with deep and Gu.S. satisMetion. II
Srsy thai We rnsy 80 together" abe cried,
clingipg to him closely. To her no was
the best. the greatest, tic loftiest, the |
loyeliest man e!iyo. He had Eomething Of |
THO larsslesa Of the gods to their woy.
shippers; something, too, Of the helpless.
Noes OF the child to its mother. She knew |
that her flashes and blazes and singing |
spelle were only a tnccesss;an OF new ex:
nnssI,iiasss 10 Aiua th4f gave her something !
OF pleopatrs's inf mite variety; che won
dered why he was not more moved BY
that marvellous voice Ct hers, tho utmost !
sweetness 0! Yh6,a tones had u thrill that
rdoxsd other men 10 tears, but then in
turn che could not stand spsil.honnd be-
fore the operstiors where his surgeons
knife wrought miracles; and her Yaioe
was but a pleasure o. tas ssuaes, and his
ssil yas tue salvation Of life. She did
not often let him see her in such tender
mood as this; she would have died for |
him If it would have dqae him aay good;
she would have died with him my day he
She had chance presently.
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